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{"title":"Falling into Marxist Sociology: Choosing to Stay","authors":"E. O. Wright","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.5071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5071","url":null,"abstract":"Using \"solid animation\" techniques (i.e. moving a piece slightly and then shooting a frame of film), the film revolves around a chess game. It is a game in which many pawns are lost (from a chess point of view it is a terrible game). When a piece is taken, it falls over and is kicked off the board. The pawns gradually pile up next to the board. Eventually you see them talking to each other, the two sides mixed together. After a while, in a burst of action, they attack the aris tocratic pieces playing the game. The soundtrack changes from Baroque harpsichord music to Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring\". Before long, the elite is defeated and pushed from the board. The pawns then dance a Virginia Reel folk dance, light and dark pieces intermingled. The screen fades out. But is the story over? No. The picture comes back on and you see the pieces marching back onto the board. They line up to play a new chess game, only this time the pawns are on the back rows and the old aristocratic pieces on the front rows. The pawns now move like knights, queens, bishops; the elite of the ancien regime is reduced to the status of pawns. And the game begins again.","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"14 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125616411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Women and Men from MARS: Editors of the Mid-American Review of Sociology","authors":"M. Kelly, Laura Z. Barter","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.5075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5075","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123863674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Meta-Sociology: Doings and Reflections","authors":"W. Scott","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.5068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5068","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117182966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Road Worth Taking: Sociology as a Vocation and the Legacy of Caroll D. Clark","authors":"G. Foulke","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.5073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5073","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124961560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Tradition Continues: A Gendered Perspective","authors":"Stephanne L. Zale","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.5067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5067","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122761978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"SOCIOLOGY AND THE FARM CRISIS","authors":"P. Mooney","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.5015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5015","url":null,"abstract":"American agriculture is once again in a very serious financial crisis. Information pertaining to this crisis is readily available from a variety of sources. The print and electronic media have widely covered it with both human interest stories as well as broader national and regional level figures. Even Hollywood has provided several successful films portraying the tragedy of the loss of independence and dignity that coincide with the failure of a family farm. The USDA has published a stream of data on the sorry state of· U.S. agriculture, though these often conclude with optimistic expectations for 'next year.' The General Accounting Office (G.A.O.), too, has provided analyses of the crisis (1986a, 1986b). Finally, data are also available from analyses done by local states: surveys by state departments of agriculture, by Colleges of Agriculture, or by activist groups. Given the availability of such information, I will not repeat the litany of facts and figures of the crisis here, but will instead point to two apparent failures of this literature. First, though much of the literature provides a good deal of statistical detail, it lacks grounding in theoretical frameworks that might explain the crisis. We might expect and accept this from government agencies, activist groups, and economists. In fact, we might even expect it from sociology, but with respect to the latter we need not accept this poverty of theory. The second, perhaps related.Tailure of this literature is its inability to generate widespread interest in the crisis among either the general population or the broader sociological profession. This paper is addressed to these issues. Let us consider the latter problem first. :-.","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114502217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Education For Empowerment and Social Action in Rural America","authors":"D. Ostendorf, Daniel Levitas","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.5012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124902536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Social and Ecological Correlates of Bankruptcy During the Farm Fiscal Crisis, 1970-1987","authors":"J. P. Smith","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.5010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5010","url":null,"abstract":"For the last two decades, social scientists have accepted the premise that farm modernization resulted in larger, technologically sophisticated, and capital intensive farming units. In addition, it was a foregone conclusion that modernization led to fewer farm units. Several historians (Danbom, 1979; Shover, 1976; Fite, 1984) have described the historical origins of the process of farm modernization. A classic analysis of the structural and ideological change in American agriculture was presented by Rohrer and Douglas (1969) in The Agrarian Transition: Dualism and Change. This work generated a rethinking of the centrality and persistence of Agrarian ideology (Flinn and Johnson, 1974; Buttel and Flinn, 1975). While the general thesis of an agrarian transition is widely accepted, questions remain about the pace or rate of the transition. Some historians have viewed this transition in epochal terms; the transition is likened to an \"agrarian twilight,\" a slow fade. Other historians and social commentators have noted an uneven, non linear path for farm modernization and agricultural development in general. Some events like a technological breakthrough or a fiscal crisis can hasten the rate of modernization in the agricultural sector (Campbell, et al., 1984). Agricultural growth or decline, then, can be viewed in stages, and the factors that influence each stage can be studied. Despite the torrent of press releases about increased farm income and government transfer payments, after 1981 it became apparent that the farm sector and rural communities were facing dire straits. The \"fiscal crisis\" of the early 1980's actually emerged slowly after 1978. It was an institutional crisis that involved the farm sector and agribusiness. It was not a simple problem of low cash flow for a select group of poor managers as it has been viewed by economists and management specialists. To understand the impact of the fiscal crisis, one needs to conceive of farming as a family business and an occupation that is fostered and nurtured by the parent generation, community and the state. When a farmer leaves farming, it is far more complex than in prior years because","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130949245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Empowering Rural People: Strategic Planning and Training for Community Survival","authors":"S. Myers, Bruce. Drewlow, Jackie Zerr","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.5014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.5014","url":null,"abstract":"Community Quest is a problem-solving model for rural communities which connects leadership development with local issues. Leadership is a lifelong pursuit, developed through practical experiences in our own communities. By building on community strengths, a region can clarify its collective mission to direct power and resources toward a shared vision. The goal is to link communities in a shared agenda for the region. Innovative techniques are used to involve more people in the community's decision-making process. A three-stage process which combines research and problem-solving methods brings decision makers and stakeholders together for strategic planning.","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124910640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Technological Innovation and Capital Accumulation in Sub..Saharan Africa: Implications for Rural Development","authors":"H. Prechel","doi":"10.17161/STR.1808.4996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.4996","url":null,"abstract":"Development policy and the role of technology in the capital accumula tion process has been a subject of controversy since the 1960s. This paper reviews the divergent opinions on this issue, critiques development policy in sub-Saharan Africa, and analyzes how its connection to the global economy affects Africa's ability to accumulate capital and realize long term growth. The paper demonstrates that the urban-oriented modemiza tionist policies of the 1960s and 1970s have hampered sub-Saharan Africa's ability to feed its expanding population. The analysis suggests that inter nally directed agricultural development must proceed externally-oriented urban-industrial development.","PeriodicalId":338053,"journal":{"name":"Social thought & research","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123067303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}